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  • Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability
    Arcidiacono, Peter; Bayer, Dr Patrick; Hizmo, Aurel (AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC, 2010)
    We provide evidence that college graduation plays a direct role in revealing ability to the labor market. Using the NLSY79, our results suggest that ability is observed nearly perfectly for college graduates, but is revealed ...
  • Do People Value Racial Diversity? Evidence from Nielsen Ratings
    Aldrich, Eric; Arcidiacono, Peter; Vigdor, Jacob (Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2005)
    Nielsen ratings for ABC's Monday Night Football are significantly higher when the game involves a black quarterback. In this paper, we consider competing explanations for this effect. First, quarterback race might proxy ...
  • Finite Mixture Distributions, Sequential Likelihood and the EM Algorithm
    Arcidiacono, Peter; Jones, John Bailey (Econometrica, 2003)
    A popular way to account for unobserved heterogeneity is to assume that the data are drawn from a finite mixture distribution. A barrier to using finite mixture models is that parameters that could previously be estimated ...
  • Peer Effects in Medical School
    Arcidiacono, Peter; Nicholson, Sean (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper SeriesElsevier, 2002-06)
    Using data on the universe of students who graduated from U.S. medical schools between 1996 and 1998, we examine whether the abilities and specialty preferences of a medical school class affect a student's academic achievement ...